[llvm-dev] Lowering Select to Two Predicated Movs

[Friedman, Eli via llvm-dev]

On 7/7/2017 11:12 AM, Dilan Manatunga via llvm-dev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering what would be the best way to lower a select operation 
> two predicated movs. I looked through the ARM, MIPS, and NVPTX 
> backends and they all seem to lower a select to some sort of 
> conditional move or native select operation.

ARM lowers a select to a predicated mov.  MOVCCr is a pseudo-instruction 
which gets expanded after instruction selection.

-Eli

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